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Prudish pornographer, gender-bending anti-feminist, anarchist
reactionary, “Queen of the Decadents” yet nemesis to the
Surrealists, Rachilde was a fin-de-siècle French author who
embodied antithetical extremes, and whose life of notoriety
spanning nearly a century ended in a death in near obscurity in
1953. Known primarily for novels such as Monsieur Vénus (1884), Madame
Adonis (1888), and La Marquise de
Sade (1887), whose titles announce the gender switching
and sexual theatrics central to her œuvre, she was also a playwright, essayist,
biographer, journalist and salonnière, a …

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